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A comment on Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year. Parent comment

Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by mrtesthah on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:36AM (#50218585)
CBP believes it has the right to files saved locally on your device itself. However explicitly cloud-hosted data (that is not stored on the device) is supposed to be off-limits, as I understand it.

And keep in mind that American citizens cannot be denied entry to the country for refusing to unlock or hand over their devices. They might hold you for a little while, but they cannot stop you.

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Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by testing22321 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:51AM (#50218638)
They can arrest you the second you are admitted into the country.
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Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by zaphirplane on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:53AM (#50220801)
For what, the ambiguous phrasing is misleading
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Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by cowlevel on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:17AM (#50222110)
People are getting arrested for all sorts of excuses. The Cop City protestor with the GrapheneOS phone was detained for "a routine search for child porn" - not something they routinely search for, and some people think they were going to plant some if they could get into the phone.
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Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by testing22321 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:42PM (#50223438)
What I’m saying is that you are correct. No country can deny entry to their own citizens.

They can, and frequently do, arrest you the second they admit you.

What for? Whatever they make up.

In the US they can also keep all your devices indefinitely.

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Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by mrtesthah on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:08PM (#50225868)
They have also arrested citizens simply for driving in their own car proximate to an ICE kidnapping. But if we preemptively act like we have no rights then they've already won.
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Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by yencabulator on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:36AM (#50232021)
> No country can deny entry to their own citizens.

USA effectively does that, though: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/us-travel-re...

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Re:Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 3... by iAMkenough on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:04PM (#50223124)
“a little while” isn’t defined in any laws or regulations, so that could be weeks or months if they don’t like you
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